[The investigation of formant on different artistic voice].
OBJECTIVE
To explore the characteristic of formant-a very important parameter in the spectrogram of three types of artistic voice (western mode; Chinese mode; Beijing opera).


METHODS
We used MATLAB software to make the short-time Fourier transform and spectrogram analysis on the homeostasis vowel examples of the three types.


RESULTS
The western mode had different representation "singer formant" (Fs) based on the voice part; the Chinese mode's notable features were that F1, F2, F3, were continuous and the energy of them changed softly; the Beijing opera had the common representation which was a very wide formant and there was soft transition between formants and various harmonic, besides it showed a similar component like the "Fs" (two formants connected normally).


CONCLUSIONS
Different artistic voice showed their own characteristics of the formant parameter in the spectrogram, which had important value on the identification, objective evaluation and prediction.
Wang
Jianqun
J
Department of Otolaryngology, Drum Tower Hospital, Medical College of Nanjing University, Nanjing 210008, China. yfxj2008@sina.com
Gao
Xia
X
Liu
Xiaozhou
X
Feng
Yulin
Y
Shen
Xiaohui
X
Yu
Chenjie
C
Yang
Ye
Y
D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009146:Music; D017550:Spectroscopy, Fourier Transform Infrared; D014833:Voice Quality; D055815:Young Adult